The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-12-29
FARM AND FIREslOE.

Only sober help 70 care for stock.
Care well for stock during 'bliz-
Yards"
Tomato Short-cakc: Make crust
~ for blackbcrries, select good. ripe
meal tomatoes. cut in slices one-halfirch
.hick. prepare and serve same as straw
berry. using little less sugar. Farmer
md Manufacturer.
Poor sheep are always hard to win
CT. and there is really no necessity for
heir getting poor; in fact it does not
oay. While it is not necessary that
hey should be fat, yet it is necessary
hat they should i,c kept in good com
lition.
jam Trifies: Beat three eggs well.
add little salt and -four enough 10
make thick paste. Roll ont and GU,
INTO very thin cakes and fry in hot lard.
Spread half Of them with jam or jelly.
and use the other half for upper crnsts
or covers. Detroit Free Press.
Egg Pudding: Half pound Of
bread crumbs. half pound Of raisins.
spound Of chopped apples. four eggs.
! cup Of sugar. piece of butter the size
II an egg. spice. Boil in mold.
Serve with hard sauce. - Boston budget.
One hundred dollars worth Of
.heese takes from the farm less than
,ne-sevcnth the fertility taken by 500
worth Of grain. while 300 worth cf
outter-if the skim milk be fed on the
'arm-takes nothing from the SOIL
Indianapolis Journal.
"A pretty screen for the lamp can
De made FROM small fan by attaching
long piece Of wire ut the top. bending
t over to keep in place upon the CHM
ncy; then take a tiny bunch of ostrich
lips. bunch Of artificial flowers. or
pressed sea MOSES. attach to the center
II the fan. and hold in place by bit Of
bright ribbon. Indianapolis Journal.
How often we see a farmer trying
20 carry on more land than he can we'll
10; often double the number Of acres
that he should have. 1t does rot pay
10 carry on a farm in this fashion;
better pay taxes only on what YOU can
profitably till. Put the fertilizers on
fewer acres, raise larger crops. and you
will find it will pay a great deal better.
-Erchan9e.
Ribbon Cake: Two cups sugar.
one cup butter, four eggs, one cup milk.
two and one half cups -four, three tea
spoons Of baking powder. Take two
thirds Of this and bake in layers. and
20 the third remaining add one table,
spoon molasses. one cup chopped rails
ms, one-half cup currants. one piece
citron chopped fine; teaspoon each Of
cinnamon. cloves and nutmeg. Put the
layers together with jelly or thin FROST
ing. Boston Budget.
-Decoying destructive insects by the
light Of lamps is often recommended by
superficial writers. The light more
frequently entraps those which are en-
.irely harmless. or such rs are doing
the cultivator positive benefit BY at
lacking or dcvouring his enemies.
Prof. Claypole. Of Ohio, in a paper read
before the chronological society Of On
.ario. says those insects which, are most
annoying are not attracted BY light
the mosquito. for example. having no
special lore for lamps. Troy Times
Red ants may be destroyed. ac-
cording to one honsekeeper. by trap
ping them. She would smear plate
with beans and set it on the shelf with
smeared tooth-pick laid from the
shelf to the edge Of the plate. and in a
short time it would be brown. Then
she would quickly set it in hot oven.
or else in tho sink and turn boiling
water on it. Sometimes she uses scraps
OF meat OF fresh meat bones, only one
1t time Tor they scatter), and in an
hour it would be brown. not even the
bone showing through them. She cx-
terminated all.